the Subsection Nobiles. II. 
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plant, figured in i860. In those circumstances it will be best to distinguish 
the two extreme forms as Statice brassicifolia (typica) and Statice brassici- 
folia , forma macroptera. Neither has been found anywhere outside the 
islands mentioned, and even there they are confined to a single station in 
each, namely in Hierro to some steep rocks above Savinosa, on the crater bay 
of El Golfo on the north side of the island (both forms), and in Gomera to 
some grassy ledges high up on the gigantic cliff, known as El Risco de las 
Sulas near Agulo (only the typical form). The Rev. R. P. Murray collected 
both forms as late as 1899, an d each in its locus classicus. 
I have already referred to the introduction of Statice brassicifolia 
(typica). The form macroptera was raised by Messrs. Thibaut and Keteleer 
of Paris, presumably from seeds gathered by Bourgeau in 1845, and a fine 
specimen of theirs was figured in Illustration Horticole (PI. 105) in 1856. 
Both are, however, now very rare in cultivation. 
Statice puberula. 
We have seen that in Statice arborea and Statice brassicifolia , there is 
a range of variation great enough to have suggested the presence of distinct 
species. In Statice puberula this range is still greater, and affects all parts 
with the exception of the c spicae ’ and the ultimate divisions of the 
inflorescence, both being remarkably uniform throughout. Statice puberula 
was discovered by Webb and Berthelot 1 in 1829. They found it in the 
island of Lanzarote on the western precipices of the Famara, a basaltic 
range overhanging the narrow straits of El Rio, which separate Lanzarote 
from the small island of Graciosa, and also on the other side of El Rio in 
Graciosa itself. Webb sent seeds of it to his home-place at Godaiming, and 
a plant raised from them was described and figured as Statice puberula , 
Webb by Lindley 2 in 1831. Webb’s specimens represent an extremely 
stunted form, scarcely 1 dm. high, with inflorescences about 4 cm. (or less) 
across, and dense rosettes of small leaves, the longest blades not much 
exceeding 3 cm. The leaves are, like the primary axis of the inflorescence, 
loosely covered with coarse stellate hairs and entire, without a trace of 
lobing in the decurrent bases. The cultivated specimen figured by Lindley 
was about twice as high and had a much looser inflorescence, almost 12 cm. 
across, wingless peduncles, and entire leaf-blades up to 6 cm. long. Another 
figure of a cultivated specimen of Statice puberula , no doubt of the same 
origin, and published in the Botanical Magazine (tab. 3701) in 1839, 
represents a plant almost 3 dm. high, with an inflorescence of about the 
same size as in Lindley’s plant, but with its primary branches narrowly 
winged. The blades are up to 4 cm., and the slender petioles up to 6 cm. 
1 Webb and Berthelot, 1. c., Ill, pp. 27, 28, and III, ii, p. 178. 
2 Lindley in Botanical Register, tab. 1450. 
